Recoil ions from the β decay of Sb134 confined in a Paul trap [Study of Recoil ions from the β decay of Sb134 using the Beta-decay Paul trap]

Siegl, K.; Scielzo, N. D.; Czeszumska, A.; Clark, J. A.; Savard, G.; Aprahamian, A.; Caldwell, S. A.; Alan, B. S.; Burkey, M. T.; Chiara, C. J.; Greene, J. P.; Harker, J.; Marley, S. T.; Morgan, G. E.; Munson, J. M.; Norman, E. B.; Orford, R.; Padgett, S.; Galván, A. Perez; Sharma, K. S.; Strauss, S. Y.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.035504

Recoil ions from the $β$ decay of ${}^{134}{Sb}$ confined in a Paul trap [Study of Recoil ions from the $β$ decay of ${}^{134}{Sb}$ using the Beta-decay Paul trap]

Journal Article · Fri Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.035504· OSTI ID:1466927

Siegl, K. ^[1]; Scielzo, N. D. ^[2]; Czeszumska, A. ^[3]; Clark, J. A. ^[4]; Savard, G. ^[5]; Aprahamian, A. ^[6]; Caldwell, S. A. ^[7]; Alan, B. S. ^[2]; Burkey, M. T. ^[5]; Chiara, C. J. ^[8]; Greene, J. P. ^[9]; Harker, J. ^[8]; Marley, S. T. ^[10]; Morgan, G. E. ^[11]; Munson, J. M. ^[12]; Norman, E. B. ^[12]; Orford, R. ^[13]; Padgett, S. ^[2]; Galván, A. Perez ^[14]; Sharma, K. S. ^[15] more »

Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Rigetti Computing, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (United States); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA (United States)
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)

The low-energy recoiling ions from the β decay of ¹³⁴Sb were studied by using the Beta-decay Paul Trap. Using this apparatus, singly charged ions were suspended in vacuum at the center of a detector array used to detect emitted β particles, γ rays, and recoil ions in coincidence. The recoil ions emerge from the trap with negligible scattering, allowing β-decay properties and the charge-state distribution of the daughter ions to be determined from the β-ion coincidences. First-forbidden β-decay theory predicts a β–ν correlation coefficient of nearly unity for the 0^– to 0⁺ transition from the ground state of ¹³⁴Sb to the ground state of ¹³⁴Te. Although this transition was expected to have a nearly 100% branching ratio, an additional 17.2(52)% of the β-decay strength must populate high-lying excited states to obtain an angular correlation consistent with unity. As a result, the extracted charge-state distribution of the recoiling ions was compared with existing β-decay results and the average charge state was found to be consistent with the results from lighter nuclei.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC52-07NA27344; FG02-94ER40834; FG02-98ER41086

OSTI ID:: 1466927

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1429147
OSTI ID: 1471571

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL--734381; 886329

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 97; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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